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Name: NIPPON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/09/1908
Completed: 01/1909
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 426
Dimensions: 4028grt, 2428nrt, 380.4 x 49.0 x 25.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (27.5, 45 & 74 x 48ins), 434nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
01/1909 Swedish East Asiatic Line (D Brostrom, manager)
1936 Wappu O/Y (Antti Wihuri, manager), Brando, Finland; renamed WIRTA
24/01/1941 Wrecked
Comments: 24/01/1941: Wrecked at Skjerjafjord, Iceland
On voyage Baltimore to Petsamo


Photo as NIPPON courtesy of George Robinson

Photo as WIRTA courtesy of Richard Cox